So, stuff.
1) Got a roommate: Ellen.
2) Babysitting a cat: Mia
3) Still in love with a boy: Karl
4) Mother's Might Be Coming: Jan 20th
5) Got free software through Comp Sci: Operating Systems
6) School starts soon: Jan 20th.
Elucidated Points:
1) Cameron's (Karl's friend,) girlfriend Ellen moved in on Jan...2nd? She has an upstairs room...and basically to entire upstairs to herself since I hardly go up there anyway. We have almost exactly opposite awake&do-stuff schedules, so we hardly see eachother. That suits me fine, but sometimes I worry a little. She's clean, quiet, has two birds (door is kept closed for the cats,) and easy to coexist with. I think not knowing eachother very well allows us to be aloof and politely distanced, unlike the affair with Stephie. Roommate Round #2: PASS~! Well..not entirely, it'll take a few months of punctual rent-paying to completely pass.
2) A family at Karl's parents' church are going to Spain on a missionthingy, but couldn't bring their cat Mia. Since they couldn't find anyone else, I volunteered to Miasit. Trauma and Mia are in the ignore stage of their relationship, with little bits of hissyfits, but no squabbles yet. Trauma is a better looking cat- Mia has the same colouration pattern (grey-brown tabby) as Trauma, but darker coloured, a little fluffier, and a bit mangier looking. Her tial also fails. While Trauma's tail is poofy all the way to the tip, Mia's tail comes to a narrow point.
It's funny to compare their voices. Mia is the schoolmarm, and Trauma is the high school girl. Trauma is, as I've suspected, fairly inept at cat politics as she is with most cat things, so she enters staring contests with Mia, gets distracted even though by catlaw they're stupposed to stare eachother down forever, and runs around playing with things in a 10 foot radius of Mia, as if she wants to pounce the elder cat.
3) Karl is still wonderful~ He got me a cuddlerat for X-mas, which is a big blanket that zips up and you wear it like a dress! He also got me the common cold as a soap dispenser and comics~ His parents were kind enough to buy me a video game: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.
4) Mom says she's coming out on the 20th, but a week or two ago, I heard from Dad she hadn't filed that plan with the government yet. So she might not actually make it out 'cause they don't do last minute flight plans. Her coming probably marks the end of my monthly From-Parents perdium forever.
5) I had asked my professor about it last semester since I heard about it from a Compy Sci major that the school offers free software to people taking CS classes. Last semester, I was technically only taking GDD (Game Design) classes, and even though it was programming, it didn't have the CS pre-fix thinger, so I wasn't eligable. My professor remembered for me this semester and already filed for admittance to getting the software, as I take a CS continuation of my programming this semester. I've already downloaded and am installing Windows XP Pro on my laptop, and am downloading Vista Business with SP1. Queued is a bunch of happy programming software~
6) School starts. Schedule looks decent. Only one class on Tues and Thurs, no class on Friday. Long days are 9:25-4:20 on Monday, and 9:25-7:05 on Wed. All my classes are with Karl, though he's taking one more than me. C#, Computer Graphics, Women Studies & Video Games (required by major. Boo.), and two Business/Innovation classes. (Booo.)
In other news, we're actually really enjoying D&D 4th Edition. It simplifies a lot, most notably the rules for a grapple(It comes up more often than one would think...), so we're not rule lawyering as much and therefore have time to do more plot.
